eToro uses cookies to:
- Optimize your trading experience, including remembering your preferences, location, preferred language, browser and other details;
- Authenticate your identity for security purposes;
- Maintain our website and certain functions available on it;
- Analyze and track the use of our services;
- Adjust our platform according to your trading habits and our regulatory requirements.
What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny pieces of data that are sent to your computer by a website and stored on your computer. Cookies are non-executable and cannot be used to install malware. They allow websites to recognize visitors when they return and include basic information about them that is checked and updated every time you visit the website. For more information see: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Managing your cookies
At eToro, we respect your right to privacy and are therefore happy to provide you with tools to manage the cookies you receive from our web services.
Some cookies are essential to the performance of our platform (you cannot opt out from these cookies if you wish to use our platform). Below you will find a list of some of the third party cookies used by eToro. For those users who would prefer not to receive non-essential cookies, we have provided an “opt out” option for you to select.
Your browser may also allow you to block the storage of cookies on your computer; please refer to your browser’s “Help” menu or website for more information. If you use our web services without blocking cookies you are actually consenting to the cookies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| etoro.com | ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | __cfruid | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 1 Year |
| help.etoro.com | renderCtx | Used to store site parameters in the session for reuse across requests by a single client for functionality and performance reasons. | 0 Days |
| help.etoro.com | pctrk | Used to count page views by unauthenticated users against license usage. | 1 Year |
| help.etoro.com | LSKey-c$CookieConsentPolicy | Used to apply end-user cookie consent preferences set by our client-side utility. | 1 Year |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | hp_preferences | 6 Days | |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | marketing_visitor_regulation_id | 1 Day | |
| help.etoro.com | force-stream | Used to properly route server requests within Salesforce infrastructure for sticky sessions. | 0 Days |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | eToroLocale | 0 Days | |
| etoro.com | __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | datadome | DataDome is a bot protection service that may use cookies to distinguish between legitimate users and bots. It is used to protect websites from scraping, fraud, and other types of automated abuse. | 1 Year |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | marketing_visitor_country | 1 Day | |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | __cflb | This cookie is used by Cloudfare for load balancing. | 0 Days |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | dd_testcookie | This cookie is used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | bm_sv | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | 0 Days |
| help.etoro.com | CookieConsentPolicy | Used to apply end-user cookie consent preferences set by our client-side utility. | 1 Year |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | __cflb | This cookie is used by Cloudfare for load balancing. | 0 Days |
Performance Cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| etoro.com | _hjSession_xxxxxx | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. Opt out | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | optimizelyDomainTestCookie | These Optimizely cookies allow us to test different versions of website pages to different users at the same time and to track how users navigate around our website. We use this information to test new features and make the website easier to use. | 5 Months |
| etoro.com | _uetvid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 1 Year |
| analytics.etoro.com | mp_xxxxxxx_mixpanel | Used to identify individual users. This tool is used to measure site performance and usage patterns. Opt out | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga. Opt out | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. Opt out | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. Opt out | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. Opt out | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | __adal_ca | __adal_root_domain_test_nnnnnnnnnnnnn | 5 Months |
| etoro.com | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid. Opt out | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | __adal_cw | __adal_root_domain_test_nnnnnnnnnnnnn | 6 Days |
| etoro.com | optimizelyEndUserId | Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. This cookie is a unique user identifier | 5 Months |
| etoro.com | __adal_root_domain_test_nnnnnnnnnnnnn | This cookie name is associated with software provided by Adalyser to enable optimization of TV advertising by tracking sessions and conversion timings in relation to TV ad spot air times. This is a pattern type cookie with a common root of __adal_root_domain_test_ followed by a string of numbers. | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | __adal_id | __adal_root_domain_test_nnnnnnnnnnnnn | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | __adal_ses | __adal_root_domain_test_nnnnnnnnnnnnn | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. Opt out | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | mp_xxxxxxx_mixpanel | Used to identify individual users. This tool is used to measure site performance and usage patterns. Opt out | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. Opt out | 0 Days |
| THIRD PARTY | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| service.force.com | LSKey-c$CookieConsentPolicy | With this cookie, Salesforce can identify your preferences from cookies collected on the website. It`s also used with Lightning Locker. You can find more details on Salesforce Cloud Service Cookies and Salesforce Embedded Chat Cookies. | 1 Year |
| service.force.com | CookieConsentPolicy | Used to apply end-user cookie consent preferences set by Salesforce Experience Cloud. | 1 Year |
| force.com | BrowserId | Testing | 1 Year |
Functional Cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| etoro.com | cf_clearance | Used to verify user is not a bot; user/system has solved a challenge successfully | 1 Year |
| THIRD PARTY | |||
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| vimeo.com | __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | 0 Days |
| rum.optimizely.com | AWSELB | This domain is associated with Optimizely, a platform providing A/B testing and personalization for websites. The cookies are used to measure the performance and effectiveness of different website designs. | 0 Days |
| vimeo.com | _cfuvid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 0 Days |
| rum.optimizely.com | optimizelyRumLB | Controls the AWSELB cookie`s attributes (for example, SameSite and Secure). | 0 Days |
| rum.optimizely.com | AWSELBCORS | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie.Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB | 0 Days |
| connect.facebook.net | fbsr_166209726726710 | This domain is owned by Facebook. The main business activity is: Social Media | 1 Year |
Targeting Cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| etoro.com | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 2 Months |
| etoro.com | _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Opt out | 0 Days |
| etoro.com | _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. Opt out | 2 Months |
| etoro.com | _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | 0 Days |
| etoroprod.wpengine.com | optimizelyOptOut | n/a | 1 Year |
| etoro.com | optimizelyOptOut | n/a | 1 Year |
| THIRD PARTY | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. Opt out | 1 Year |
| taboola.com | t_pt_gid | _gid | 1 Year |
| www.facebook.com | This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world’s largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the ‘Like’ button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. | 0 Days | |
| taboola.com | taboola_session_id | This domain is owned by Taboola Inc, a USA based company with multi-national presence. It provides tageted native advertising services. | 0 Days |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Testing | 5 Months |
| t.co | muc_ads | This domain is owned by Twitter. It is used as a URL shortening service, which allows Twitter to collect data on how links are shared. | 1 Year |
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. Opt out | 0 Days |
| bing.com | MSPTC | This domain is owned by Microsoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 Year |
| twitter.com | personalization_id | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. | 1 Year |
| twitter.com | guest_id | Twitter does not currently provide information on the use of specific cookies. | 1 Year |
| bing.com | MUID | This domain is owned by Mircosoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 Year |
| twitter.com | guest_id_marketing | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. | 1 Year |
| twitter.com | guest_id_ads | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. | 1 Year |
| taboola.com | t_gid | _gid | 1 Year |
| www.youtube.com | TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Testing | 0 Days |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 5 Months |
| youtube.com | YSC | Testing | 0 Days |